Question

Choose a news story to investigate across a variety of alternative and mainstream news platforms. You may choose something that is happening right now in the news, or consider looking at one of the following topics: The G20 protests in Toronto in 2010 The Arab Spring 2010 Anti-terror Bill C51 2015 Parliament Hill shooting 2014 Rather than sharing your graphic organizer, summarize the most interesting conclusions you can draw about the way the story was covered differently by different news media. End your summary with your opinion on whether or not alternative news media appear to make a valuable contribution to our understanding of the news in Canada.

Answer 1

Since oil prices go negative, the US wTi crude oil prices remain unattractive as storage costs get higher and supply remains higher because oil plants cannot be closed and thus US economy receives almost zero prices on selling in short run and economic growth deepdives as unemployment toonrises because of low revenues and low forex reserves.

Coronavirus has had huge impact on economic growth due to lockdown and shutdowns and social welfare losses.

The economic growth remains subdued as Aggregate demand and consumption both fall simultaneously also leading to fall in prices and inflation.

Investment is pumped out due to falling interest rate regime and lower economic outlook of companies.

Government spending is ramped up due to an expansionary fiscal policy by reducing taxes and spending. Also net exports go negative as imports surge due to supply shocks.

Negative growth in GDP causes high unemployment and lower inflation based on Philips curve movement.

Thus in short run, aggregate supply is high but aggregate demand is low and real GDP falls. However in long run the economy stabilises.

The US has been great in fiscal stimulus of 484 billion dollars and US Fed unlimited bonds buying programmes worth 2 trillion dollars with rate cuts, CRR and SLR and liquidity coverage ratio cuts. Triggering automotic stabilizers and combined above policy will help alleviates financial distress and grow economic growth throufh higher consumption and disposable incomes.

The supplyvof credit availability rises causing its demand to go down considerably.

Sijce the interest rates are cut, the banks shall transmit easier loans availability at lower rates and thus loan markets will grow enormously.

However the cases has risen to 1 million approximately and states have been relaxed and thus caused havoc.

To avert this crisis, US must impose lockdown and gradually open economy using partial lockdown only after 2 months of complete lockdown. Major boost towards creating vaccination and healthcare for curing patients is required

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